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One good turn on the luxuriant wheel - Carl Adamshick "Everything That Happens Can Be Called Aging"

Just like my mother's hands over her wheel - Mary Alexandra Agner "Adero's Wheel"

The great wheel of darkness - Conrad Aiken "Twilights, V"

Revolving among the train wheels - Daisy Aldan "I Awake in These Hills"

Rhythmic echo of the iron wheel - Willis Boyd Allen "In My Arm-chair"

Ruthless as a turning wheel - James Baldwin "Confession"

The slow wheels of the mind - Herman Beavers "On Seventh Avenue at Stop-Time"

Wheeling in ordered state to form the runes - Stephen Vincent Benet "Always the Sonnetteer"

Wheel for dim, celestial wars - Stephen Vincent Benet "Campus Sonnet: 1. Before an Examination"

My mind kept on its burning wheel - Stephen Vincent Benet "Resurrection"

Its blazing wheel of great aims lost - Stephen Vincent Benet "Resurrection"

My restless hands hold fast the wheel - Paul Bewsher "The Horrors of Flying"

Lord of the whirling wheels - William Lisle Bowles "Banwell Hill: Part Second"

The dizziness of height and breeze and vultures wheeling - Traci Brimhall "Mouth of the Canyon"

Wheeling, songless and full of grace - Traci Brimhall "Mouth of the Canyon"

The cormorant wheeled in circles round - William Cullen Bryant "Rizpah"

By tying torches to a wheel - Witter Bynner "The New World IV"

The drive wheel rushes over unaware - K.A. Campbell, Jr. "About It and About"

Change with changing fortune's wheel - Ceiriog "Change and permanence" transl. by Edmund O. Jones

With a fated spin of the wheel - Votey Cheav "When a Kingdom Falls/Shakti's Kisses"

All wheels or webs of any worth - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book VI. Ethandune: The Slaying of the Chiefs"

The wheel of the roaring stillness - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book VII. Ethandune: The Last Charge"

Wheels of wind and star - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book VIII. The Scouring of the Horse"

Though the wheels may dance all day - G.K. Chesterton "Me Heart"

Whirled in a perpetual damning wheel - James Ewing Cooley "The Spawn of Ixion"

When flitting bats commenced to wheel - Palmer Cox "The Brownies' Dancing-School"

Some turn of Fortune's wheel destroy his power - Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos "Epistle to Cean Bermudez, on the Vain Desires and Studie of Men" [Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain 1860 ed. and transl. by James Kennedy]

Evanescence with a revolving wheel - Emily Dickinson "Book 2: Nature XV: The Humming-bird"

The wheel of appearances - Jordi Doce "Guest"

Now that the wheel has broken - Rita Dove "Testimony: 1968"

The centre of the world's great wheel - Edward Dowden "The Secret of the Universe: an Ode"

Wheel like a maelstrom up and down - Rebecca Dunham "Mnemosyne to the Poet"

Wheeling and whispering come - James Elroy Flecker "Stillness"

The wheel never rusts, never stopped - Vievee Francis "Sugar and Brine: Ella's Understanding"

That chafe for the rushing of wheels - Gilbert Frankau "A Song of the Guns"

The chariot wheels of burning levin - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"

Where the slow wheel pours the sand - Robert Frost "Into My Own"

Often midst the rush of wheels - L.J.G. "Echoes" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.16-v.I, 19 April 1884]

Moths that round the taper wheel - S.G. Goodrich "Farewell to a Fashionable Acquaintance"

Where the beetle wheels his droning flight - Thomas Gray "Elegy, Written in a Country Churchyard"

A wheel in the houses of money - Joy Harjo "By the Way"

Imagining another spin of the wheel - Joy Harjo "Original Memory"

Spill out from the spokes of his wheels - Joy Harjo "Santa Fe"

The wheel of gifts and grief - Conrad Hilberry "Christmas Night"

A scouring eagle wheels and shrieks - Edward Hirsch "In Memoriam Paul Celan"

Chains clanking together on rusty wheels - Edward Hirsch "That's the Job"

Twilight bursting from thy wheels - George Moses Horton "Memory"

West and away the wheels of darkness roll - A.E. Housman "Last Poems XXXVI: Revolution"

Wheeling galaxies of birds - Aldous Huxley "Italy"

Wheeling ourselves golden - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "This Bitter Earth"

And start the wheel of eternity - James Weldon Johnson "The Judgment Day"

The same sun wheels around again - Devin Johnston "Fixed Interval"

Things with wheels that go nowhere - Camisha L. Jones "Haunted"

And wheel into the scalded sky - Judy Jordan "Prologue"

With a finger stay'd Ixion's wheel - John Keats "Hyperion"

My face a burning bush or wheel - Virginia Konchan "Black Hole"

Wheeling shadows black with rain - Archibald Lampman "The Poet's Song"

A monstrous wheel is turning - Richard Le Gallienne "Sunset in the City"

Lost beneath the turning wheel - Ruth Lechlitner "Change Must Be Served"

The spinning world her wheel - Frances Ledwidge "A Rainy Day in April"

Kingly eagles wheeled alone their flights - Lermontof "Dispute" transl. by John Pollen [probably Mikhail Lermontov]

The sun a red wheel - Li T'ai-Po "The Battle to the South of the City" translated by Florence Ayscough and adapted by Amy Lowell

An immeasurable wheel turning for evermore - Longfellow "Rain in Summer"

Above me in a wheel of roses - Amy Lowell "Granadilla"

Wheeling through the universe without leaving - Alison Luterman "Heavenly Bodies"

The comet in its wheeling race - Denis Florence MacCarthy "Advance!"

At the wheel of the northern star - Seosamh MacCathmhaoil "A Northern Love Song"

Wheel rut in the ruined stone - Archibald MacLeish "You, Andrew Marvell"

A wheeling vulture's scream - Douglas Malloch "Contrast"

Ground by the wheel of toil - Edwin Markham "Little Brothers of the Ground"

Splendors round my spirit wheel - George Martin "Aspiration"

Wheels and bone strike - Airea D. Matthews "Sexton Texts a Dead Addict's Daughter During Polar Vortex"

Turns on his wheel of light - Philip Matthews "The Morning Star"

Death at the rudderless wheel - John McCrae "The Song of the Derelict"

Run our clocks on wheels - Heather McHugh "A Physics"

The realm of rods and wheels - Gustav Melby "The Lost Chimes"

An ancient wheel spinning a knotted thread - George Meredith "Bellerophon"

Reveals the wheels whereon we run - George Meredith "Woodman and Echo"

Where wheeling fires shine - Helen M. Merrill "The Blue Flower"

Their big old hearts pounding under your wheels - Sara S. Messenger "Ampersand"

Trapped on the wheel like an insect - Joseph Millar "Job"

To bind myself upon the wheel - "The Misanthrope"

A soughing at the wheel - Carol Moldaw "The Lightning Field, 6"

Wheels of heaven dizzily spinning - Mu Hua "Rhyme-Prose on the Sea" transl. by Burton Watson

The doleful thousand-paged wheel - Pablo Neruda "Disaction" translated by Donald D. Walsh

The wheel of night eclipsed his face - Pablo Neruda "Lautreamont Reconquered" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Oil for the eternal human wheel - Pablo Neruda "Ode to Criticism (II)" transl. by Margaret Sayers Peden

When the smoke lifts its decisive wheels - Pablo Neruda "Ode to Federico Garcia Lorca" translated by Donald D. Walsh

Pulled out the eyes of the wheel - Pablo Neruda "The Strike [Canto General]" transl. by Robert Bly

The peering gulls wheeled closer - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"

Lay hands upon the wheel of the universe - Alfred Noyes "Darwin V: The Vera Causa"

The wheel of stars that Egypt turned - Alfred Noyes "Linnaeus"

The wheels of the wind - Mary Oliver "Rain, Tree, Thunder and Lightning"

A wheel loosened from the world's ratchet - Stephen Oliver "Zionism"

The spark between wood and wheel - January Gill O'Neil "Night at the Roller Palace"

Slow, sure round upon the wheels of time - "Oration on Charles Sumner, Addressed to Colored People"

Affection follows Fortune's wheels - Sir Walter Raleigh "A Poesy to Prove Affection Is Not Love"

The moon wheels its white shoulder - Paisley Rekdal "何日/What Day"

Who would reap where fortune's wheel hath trod - A.J. Requier "The Phantasmagoria: A Legend of Eld" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIV no.2, Feb. 1849]

Circling as the wheel of spirits - Ernest Rhys "The House of Hendra"

Erect upon her wheeling skies - Lola Ridge "Firehead part I: He 1: Midafternoon"

Out of the silence of wheels - Lola Ridge "Frank Little at Calvary"

Throttle your wheel's grinding power - Morris Rosenfeld "The Nightingale to the Workman" transl. by Rose Pastor Stokes and Helena Frank

Bird climbing the wheel of sky - David St. John "Francesco and Clare"

When the wheel of time goes round - Friedrich Schiller "Hymn to Joy" transl. not credited

Fortune's juggling wheel to view - Friedrich Schiller "Reproach-To Laura"

Carts whose banshee wheels cry havoc - Ann K. Schwader "The Laundrymen"

Its secret in the slippery wheels - Charles Simic "The Pieces of the Clock Lie Scattered"

Tread wheels tall as vault doors - Brandon Som "Resistors"

Under the iron wheels that lift us - Leonora Speyer "Of Mountains"

Implement of blade and wheel - Robert J.C. Stead "The Plow"

Every fairy wheel and thread - Robert Louis Stevenson "The House Beautiful"

Crows and hawks wheeling above - Su Tung-p'o "[Throw on rouge and powder]" transl. by Burton Watson

The dust from his chariot wheels - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 189: Lordly Encounters-- and Others" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Returning on thy silver wheels - Alfred Tennyson "Tithonus"

Where the wheeling systems darken - Francis Thompson "The Kingdom of God"

Queen of the loom and spinning wheel - Too-qua-stee [DeWitt Clinton Duncan] "Cherokee Memories"

Time with ever-turning multiplying wheels - Iris Tree "The Complex Life"

They move in a slow wheel of devastation - Lucy A.E. Ward "Reunion"

A brief pause of labour's sullen wheel - William Watson "The Glimpse"

In prophecies beaten by the wheels of history - Afaa Michael Weaver "Midnight Air in Louisville"

Under the wheels of a strange car - John Wieners "A poem for tea heads"

The burning dust from his wheels - William Carlos Williams "The Death of Franco of Cologne: His Prophecy of Beethoven"

Wheels rumbling through the dark city - William Carlos Williams "The Great Figure"

The revolution of wheel to sky - Keith S. Wilson "I Find Myself Defending Pigeons"

The rapid wheels of Babel's charioteers - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"

The mill wheel turning the sleeve of the sky - Cynthia Zarin "Rainy Day Fugue"


A long line of aerial cartwheels - Catherine Barnett "The Specious Present"

Cartwheels and hallellujahs - Dante Micheaux "Striking the Tents"

Enough to make the cartwheels crack - Ts'ao Ts'ao "Song on Enduring the Cold" transl. by Burton Watson


Day's chariot-wheels upon th' horizon - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet: Written at four o'clock in the morning, after a ball"


Escape from cog-wheel mandates - Camonghne Felix "Dearly Departed, Again I Dreamt About a Ship"

We take a tumble and the cog-wheels stop - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"


Guiding the fiery-wheeled throne - John Milton "Il Penseroso"


Pinwheel.


His fairy threshing-wheel - Richard Le Gallienne "Young Love II"


Wheelbarrow.


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